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themselves would be actually montane species, and accord- 

 ingly we find that the components of the forest round the tri- 

 gonometrical pile on the summit are representatives rather 

 of the flora of the upper zone of the moist low-country tract — 

 e. g., of the hills in the neighbourhood of Kandy — than of the 

 higher hills ; still they are, for the most part, different from 

 those of the low-country round. An euphorbiaceous tree, 

 Cleistanthus pallidus, and a myrtaceous one, an Eugenia, 

 apparently a variety of E. amama, are especially abundant, 

 both also occurring in the North Matale hills. Another 

 eugenia, E. zeylanica, is also common, along with Walsura 

 Gardneri, Erythroxylon obtusifolium, and Pittosporwn 

 zeylanicum. 



But if the trees are those to be expected at the elevation 

 where they grow, the smaller plants associated with them are 

 of a type one is accustomed to find usually at greater heights 

 in the hill districts. This is particularly the case with the 

 orchids, which are plentiful on the branches of the trees. Of 

 these I noted Dendrobium Macrcei, Eria Lindleyi and 

 E. muscicola, Saccolabium niveum and another species, a 

 variety of Girrhopetalum Macrcei, Sarcochilus serrceformis, 

 and of ground orchids Disperis zeylanica and the " Wana- 

 raja," Anmctochilus regalis. Several low-country species 

 were also observed. The humidity of the spot is further 

 evidenced by numerous ferns, but among them is nothing of 

 much interest. Two filmy-ferns, however, were collected : 

 one, Hymenophyllum Neesii, occurring in large sheets ; 

 Lastrea Blumei seemed the most abundant fern. 



Though several of the plants collected presented certain 

 local peculiarities, I met with one only which appears to be 

 certainly new to the Ceylon flora. This was a species of 

 Coleus, which grew straggling over some steep rocks near the 

 summit. It presents no great beauty, but is, I believe, 

 hitherto unknown to science, and I propose describing it 

 under the name of Goleus elongatus* A remarkably small- 



* Described in Journ. Bot., XXVII., p. 165. (London, 1889.) 



